Mechanical Fatigue of Metals: Experimental and Simulation Perspectives

Prelimary ToC: work will contain sections on
Cyclic plasticity and internal structure.- Ultra-low, low-, high- and giga-cycle fatigue.- Mechanisms of fatigue Damage.- Fatigue thresholds.- Short and long crack growth.- Fatigue life prediction.- Fatigue behaviour modelling and simulation.- Creep fatigue interactions.- Probabilistic fatigue and fracture.- Failure analysis and case studies.- Fatigue life extension.- Damage evaluation and fatigue design.- Variable amplitude loading.- Thermal fatigue.- Multiaxial fatigue.- Fatigue in biomaterials.- High temperature fatigue.- Fatigue-corrosion.- Environmental assisted fatigue.- Influence of manufacturing processes on fatigue behaviour.- Structural integrity assessments accounting for fatigue.- Applications and design codes (e.g. pressure vessels, metallic bridges, wind towers, offshore structures, etc.).